The Champions
(Hercules, Black Widow, Iceman, Angel, Ghost Rider) and Darkstar return to Los
Angles via sky-car to find Black Goliath battling Stilt-Man atop their
skyscraper headquarters. The Champs join in the fight and the villain holds
them off until Ghost Rider melts the street beneath him with Hellfire. Stilt-Man
simply detaches the lowest parts of his hydraulic legs and walks off at a pace
too quick for them to follow but Black G pursues him anyway. The team head up
to their offices where they meet Reggie Clayborne, the target of Stilt-Man’s
attack. She is carrying a box her boyfriend Jerry stole from Stark
International to sell for drug money; he vanished and when the box began to glow,
she came to the Champions for help. The cosmic being called the Stranger enters
through the wall, claiming the box is the Null-Life Bomb he created, and he
wants it back lest it destroy the solar system. Reaching for it terrifies
Reggie so Darkstar goes to her aid by blasting the Stranger with Darkforce—and
he strikes back. This leads all the heroes to take on the Stranger while the
television shows a battle downtown between Black Goliath and Stilt-Man. As the
Champs fight the Stranger, the device inside the box begins to grow, soon
absorbing Reggie. Angered, the Stranger reveals that he brought the Bomb to destroy
Earth but the Silver Surfer persuaded him not to and the bomb was disarmed;
aware that the bomb had recently been reactivated, he sought to retrieve it
before it began to expand through the universe and when it had engulfed the
solar system it would contract, destroying everything—but the Champions have
delayed him and now the bomb is expanding. The Stranger is engulfed but before
he vanishes inside it, he sends the Champions to find the one device that can
stop the Null-Life Bomb…
…and the Champions
find themselves in the realm of the blind immortal Kamo-Tharn; KT recognizes
Hercules’ voice and orders his ape creatures to attack….